Haven’t you always wanted to eat cookies for breakfast??
These sugar free cookies are filled with wholesome ingredients like bananas, oats, and raisins. See? Totally acceptable for breakfast. Or lunch.
Mmm sure, why not?
Normally, my goal is to make my healthy dessert recipes not taste healthy. However, these cookies are an exception to that rule. (In other words, don’t expect them to taste like traditional cookies you’d find in a bakery.) The wholesome breakfast cookies won’t be a hit with everyone, and I wouldn’t bring them to a party.
For that, I recommend my popular Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies.
But if you’re used to the taste of healthy desserts—and maybe even if you’re not—these incredibly healthy oatmeal-raisin cookies might just be your newest-favorite cookies!
Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Cookies
Also found here: 100 Sugar-Free Recipes
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- scant 1/2 cup applesauce or over-ripe banana (mashed)
- 1/4 cup nut butter of choice (I used salted peanut butter)
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp raisins (or other dried fruit, or even chocolate chips)
- 1/16 tsp salt, plus a tiny pinch more if desired (taste dough to decide)
- 1 packet stevia if using applesauce version (or 1 tablespoon sugar. I actually omitted this altogether. If you have absolutely no sweet tooth, you can try it that way. And if you have a huge sweet tooth—or are used to “non-healthy-tasting” desserts—try adding 1/4 cup sugar. As I said above, don’t expect these to taste like your everyday oatmeal-raisin cookies. I’ll post a recipe for those soon!)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mash the applesauce or banana with the nut butter, then add all other ingredients and mix until well-combined. Shape into cookies and bake for around 14 minutes. (Alternatively, you can try pulverizing the raisins and oats before combining them with the banana mixture, if you want more sweetness.) This recipe probably yields around 10-12 cookies, but I had to guess… because I ate a considerable amount of the raw dough!
Raisins: Do you love or hate them?
It seems like people have very strong feelings about raisins—either adoring them or loathing them! My roommate is on Team No-Raisins. Yesterday afternoon, as we were eating the cookies, she kept picking out the raisins and asking, “Couldn’t you have used chocolate chips instead?!” Hmmm, that’s actually not a bad idea. If there’s one thing I love more than raisins, it’s chocolate!
EDIT – Here is the chocolate version:
I used to sit and pick out all the raisins from my oatmeal cookies! But now I love the raisins! Funny how we change as we get older!
I like raisins, but not always. Like sometimes I want them in cookies, and sometimes I don’t. It all depends on my mood. And they’re best when they plump up.
These would be great crumbled into some pudding, or ice cream, or yogurt. Yum!
Not a raisin fan! I always look at oatmeal raisin cookies like, “Why??? Those could have been so tasty with chocolate chips!” That said, my daughter loves raisins, so I keep them on hand.
I love oatmeal raisin cookies. These look so good.
This sounds amazing, thank you! I love raisins, but I’ve never met anyone who hates them.
Yummy 🙂 I love healthy cookies like these. And I do like raisins, but I’d love chocolate chips in these more… or does that go without saying? 😀
Ooh oatmeal raisin cookies one of my favorites in the whole world. I love raisin’s!
I think I’m gonna make some right now!
No raisins but I’ll take chocolate chips or craisins.
Oh my, these would also make a perfekt snack, on the go :0) I will take them with the raisins, I looooove dried fruits!
My baby girl will LOVE these. She’s a big fan of “namas” (bananas) and this looks like a PERFECT food that she can feed herself!
Made them with Better N Peanut butter to lower the points (I’m on weight watchers) and left out the sugar….DELICIOUS!!!
Awwww that makes me so so happy! I’m also glad to know they work with BPB, because I’m sure someone else will ask if they can sub it, and now I’ll know how to answer! 🙂
These sound lovely! Love that they’re sugar free!
LOVE raisins…. have to get my Mum to post me the Sunmaid ones over from New Zealand, cos you can’t get them in Australia!
Oh my goodness, my 18month old went NUTS for these! More specifically, he went crazy for the batter– the actual cookies are still in the oven.
We actually used pumpkin in place of the applesauce–so good!!!
These oatmeal raisin breakfast cookies look delicious! How much time did it take to prepare them overall?
My brother and I always picked out the raisins too. Mom got smart and started grinding them for cookies. Now it’s so much easier with food processors. Makes the cookies moister as well and I would imagine it would make them seem sweeter.
I loooove raisins. Just yesterday I was at the store and saw a package of something and at a first glance, I was sure it was chocolate covered raisins and I got so excited! (It wasn’t, though. Boooo.) Anyway, once I have the ingredients for this I’m definitely going to make it. Only I’ll probably overload it with nuts and chocolate chips and dried cranberries and raisins and other yummy stuff. 😀
I love oatmeal raisin cookies! I know my son will love these and I think he and I will try them out today – perfect rainy day thing to do 🙂
Hey Katie! First of all, looooved the nutella from yesterday…I’ve eaten almost my whole batch.
Second, I have a question for you. I’m obsessed with your recipes, like seriously in love. However, my doctor just informed me that I now have to be completely oat-free. Major bummer. Do you ever use quinoa or brown rice flakes in your recipes slash do you know if they would yeild good results??
I haven’t tried either… but I do LOVE spelt flakes and kamut flakes. I bet they would work really well! And another commenter said she used quinoa flakes with good results in this recipe :).